Australian court allows DVT plaintiff to appeal
Deep vein thrombosis, otherwise known as economy class syndrome, plaintiffs have been given fresh hope in their legal bid to sue airlines after the Australian High Court granted a right of appeal to a Melbourne man.
The New Zealand Herald reports the court ruled there were important questions of law in the case of 62-year-old Brian Povey against Qantas and British Airways, and a full bench of judges should examine them next year. Povey suffered a stroke from deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, after flying back from Britain in 2000. He and other passengers received a setback when Victoria\'s Court of Appeal ruled his injury was not an accident under the international Warsaw Convention. A US court also recently ruled in Air New Zealands favour in a suit brought by an American woman who collapsed during a stopover in Auckland with blood clots. Full report in the New Zealand Herald